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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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